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Yasuhisa Shiozaki (塩崎 恭久, Shiozaki Yasuhisa, b. November 7, 1950) is a Japanese politician who served as Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Shinzō Abe until August 2007.
Yasuhisa Shiozaki | |
|---|---|
塩崎 恭久 | |
 Official portrait, 2014 | |
| Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare | |
| In office 3 September 2014 – 3 August 2017 | |
| Prime Minister | Shinzō Abe |
| Preceded by | Norihisa Tamura |
| Succeeded by | Katsunobu Katō |
| Chief Cabinet Secretary | |
| In office 26 September 2006 – 27 August 2007 | |
| Prime Minister | Shinzō Abe |
| Preceded by | Shinzō Abe |
| Succeeded by | Kaoru Yosano |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 18 July 1993 - 6 July 1995 25 June 2000 – 14 October 2021 | |
| Constituency | Former Ehime 1st district (1993-1995) Ehime 1st district (2000-2021) |
| Member of the House of Councillors | |
| In office 23 July 1995 – 11 May 2000 | |
| Constituency | Ehime at-large district |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 November 1950 Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan |
| Political party | Liberal Democratic |
| Children | Akihisa Shiozaki |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University |
Born in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, he was an AFS exchange student in high school, graduated with a liberal arts degree from the University of Tokyo and attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[1] He spent three years working at the Economic Planning Agency (of which his father, Jun Shiozaki, was then director)[citation needed] and at the Bank of Japan.[2] He then worked as a secretary to his father.
Following his father's resignation, he ran for the Diet in 1993 and was elected to represent the first district of Ehime. He served as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs in the 2005 cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi and was appointed Chief Cabinet Secretary on September 26, 2006,[3] and held the position until a cabinet shuffle at the end of August 2007.[4]
His appointment as Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare in the second Abe administration was announced on September 3, 2014.[5]
Shiozaki's profile on the LDP website:[6]
Like most member of Shinzo Abe's Cabinet, Shiozaki is affiliated to the openly revisionist organization Nippon Kaigi.[7] He also is a member of the following right-wing group at the Diet:
Shiozaki gave the following answers to the questionnaire submitted by Mainichi to parliamentarians in 2012:[8]
On October 17, 2014, Shiozaki sent an offering ('masakaki) to the controversial Yasukuni shrine.[9]
In July 2022, he was awarded as Honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), for services to UK/Japan relations.[10]
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